a look at the city's history and culture. you're watching american history tv all weekend every weekend on cspan 3. >> all of our square miles are places that i have a great deal of affection for, but this one i would have to say is special to all of us. the old mill was built in the late 1930s. it was originally built by a developer who built the lakewood area, which is one of our residential subdivisions and it was dedicating to a bit of art. the concrete as you can see looks like petrified wood, but it's concrete. the mill was actually never an operating gristmill, but it was constructed to reflect that kind of an ambiance of the city's and early history and milling flour, turning it into bread. it was done by an artist out of mexico. a fellow by the name of rodriguez was commissioned by the matthews family to come up and build this as part of the neighborhood and over the years, the city took it over and now operates it as one of our parks. one of the things that's interesting from a historical note is that this old mill